As we continue to move toward our nation’s semiquincentennial, I’m still sharing about the Revolutionary War effort of ...

How many times did David Beach apply for his Revolutionary War pension? How much did Joseph Smead of Massachusetts receive for his? Did Ephraim Blackmer ever get the land warrant he applied for after ...

An Anne Arundel County teenager took to the battlefield in South Carolina on Aug. 16, 1780, to fight for a country that ...

The Battle of Brandywine was an example of how the Revolutionary Way was a civil war. About 500 colonists fought at Brandywine on the side of the British as loyalists, firing at their neighbors and ...

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Charlotte Caldwell, a DAR chapter member, recently learned about her ancestor Shadrack Barnes and his impact on U.S. history.

LARAMIE (AP) — When Erin Stoesz was 10 years old, she found a shoe box of old letters in her grandmother’s closet. It was a series of correspondence between John Hull and his wife, Mary, during the ...

There isn't enough evidence for historians to say precisely how many Americans died on the battlefield during the Revolutionary War, but 6,800, the number cited in a study published in 1974, is the ...

Ella Zerbey Elliott, noted Schuylkill County author and musician, died on Oct. 17, 1925 – 100 years ago this month. She was the author of the “Blue Book of Schuylkill County: Who Was Who and Why,” a ...

According to historians, William Wheatley was born in 1757 in Dorchester County’s Fork District. Wheatley’s father, Edward, ...